Ice cores

Ice cores from Antarctica, from Greenland, and from a number of smaller glaciers around the world yield a wealth of information on past climates and environments. Ice cores offer unique records on past temperatures, atmospheric composition (including greenhouse gases), volcanism, solar activity, dus...

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Main Author: Svensson, Anders
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/ice-cores(e9fb40b2-0d14-4479-99ba-aac816c8961e).html
http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_159-1#page-2
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Summary:Ice cores from Antarctica, from Greenland, and from a number of smaller glaciers around the world yield a wealth of information on past climates and environments. Ice cores offer unique records on past temperatures, atmospheric composition (including greenhouse gases), volcanism, solar activity, dustiness, and biomass burning, among others. In Antarctica, ice cores extend back more than 800,000 years before present (Jouzel et al. 2007), whereas. Greenland ice cores cover the last 130,000 years